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   From: unlisted@nomail.com   
      
   Are the Apple I-phones easier to use than Android phones?   
      
   I'm elderly and although I have used computers for 28 years, I have   
   built my own computers, and installed many Windows operating systems.   
   But I can NOT make sense of my Android phone. I bought that smartphone   
   almost a year ago, and it is the most complicated and hard to use piece   
   of electronics I have ever touched. After several months of trying, I   
   resorted back to a plain flip phone, which is what I now use. This   
   Android phone is now nothing more than a costly MP3 player. (I removed   
   the SIM card, then copied all my MP3s from my computer, to a SD card,   
   and put that card in the phone).   
      
   I really dont need all the stuff on smartphones. But I did want a little   
   more than my flip phone. Although the Apple phones are more costly, I   
   would be willing to spend the money if I could actually get some use out   
   of a smartphone, and be able to understand it easily.   
      
   Android is about the most user UNFRIENDY operating systems I have ever   
   used. Much of this is because it is full of icons that dont really mean   
   anything to me, and there is not even a glossary showing what they mean.   
   Even my cheap flip phone has a glossary for the icons. If Android had   
   anything to offer, at least it could be switched to text to replace the   
   icons, such as Windows allows.   
      
   I tried, and tried real hard to learn how to use that phone, but I gave   
   up because all it did was frustrate me.   
      
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